Office-stool



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M. V. B. HOWE.

- OFFIGE STOOL. No. 275,384. Patented Apr. 10,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN V. B. HOWE, OF ERVING, MASSACHUSETTS.

OFFICE-STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,384, dated April 10, 1883. Application filed December 5, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN V. B. HOWE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Erving, in'the county of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Office-Stool, of which the following is a full and true specification.

Myinvention consists of an improvement in the manufacture of stools that are used in counting-houses, offices, and places of business, especially that class of stools used by clerks, book-keepers, &c., at desks which are high, to allow some stretch of the legs of the occupant, and also permitting him to stand if a change of position is desired. These stools as at present constructed are usually made with legs simply braced by stretchers or rounds, two between each pair, running up, with a small inclination from the bottom, into a round piece of plank, upon which the seat is pivoted. This form of stool, though in use a long time, is not satisfactory. The seat soon becomes loose and unsteady, and the stretchers or rounds between the legs, though made of the best timber, are easily and constantly broken after a little use, and never repaired.

My invention remedies these objections, making a firm, convenient, and lasting stool.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention, and form part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan or top view, showing my revolving stool. Fig.2 is a front elevation of the same.

Similar reference-letters indicate like parts in both figures.

A is the central or supporting standard, sustaining the revolving seat E, and extending down nearly as low as the legs of the stool. The seat is made to revolve on the top of the standard in any of the ordinary modes of revolving stools. The legs B, instead of entering vertically, or nearly so, into a piece of plank, always liable to split, are bent at the upper ends and enter the standard at nearly a right angle. At a point, say, one-quar er the height from the bottoms of the legs braces O are run from the diagonally-opposite legs into or through the standard, near its lower end, thus giving entire stiflness to both the legs and the standard.

The foot-rests D D, which in ordinary stools are the rounds or stretchers, in my invention consist of bent semicircular pieces, usually two in number, and disposed on opposite sides of the stool at suitable distances down from the seat to form convenient rests for the feet of the sitter. Although these bentrims might each extend entirely around the legs, encircling the four, I prefer, for lightness and convenien cc, to usebut a half-circle for each, bolting each end of the rest to a leg, and through the middle to the third leg. The other rest is on the opposite side, and secured to three legs in the same way, and they are placed at suitable distances apart l'or strength and for convenience.

I thus secure a stoolof greatstrength, durability, and convenience.

I am aware that stools and chairs have been constructed with a central piece formedwith radiating arms which are united to the ends of the uprising legs, and to such I make no claim.

I am also aware that chairs have been constructed with horizontal curved bracing for the legs, formed continuous at one elevation above the floor, and to such I make no claim.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent in an office-stool, is

An office-stool provided with a pendent standard adapted to receive the screw of a revolving seat, which standard is supported by legs formed of single pieces of material bent at their upper ends and suitably secured directly to said standard, said legs being firmly braced together by means of cross-braces O and concentric rests D D, the latter of which are secured to said legs at different elevations to serve also as foot-rests, substantially as and 90 for the purpose set forth.

MARTIN VrB. HOWE. Witnesses:

WM. H. ALLEN, JAMES S. GRINNELL. 

